Mineral Content During Coffee Extraction, and Effects on Flavor Spencer King Marywood University Chapter I: Introduction Coffee, the most widely consumed beverage in the world, also contains caffeine, the most widely consumed psychoactive chemical in the world according to McGee, H.(2004). Coffee is thought to have originated in eastern Africa, most likely Yemen, and now…
Month: April 2019
National Nutrition Month: 2019
The start of the month marked the start of National Nutrition Month for 2019. National Nutrition Month(NNM), is a health and social campaign promoted by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics(AND) during the entire month of March. The goals of the NNM campaign is to increase awareness of “. . . importance of making informed…
Hereditary Hemochromatosis
Hereditary Hemochromatosis(HH), is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder that places the affected individual at increased risk of iron overload. There are several variations of HH, with classical or type 1 Hereditary Hemochromatosis related to mutations C282Y & H63D on the HFE gene, being the most common(Flemming et.al. 2005). Classical Hereditary Hemochromatosis will be the focus…
McNichol’s Plaza
Through Marywood University’s Nutrition Dept we were given the opportunity to teach a group of ~30 3rd graders at the McNichol’s elementary school in Scranton PA. The instructional experience was part of a semester long class project focused on the interplay of culture, food, religion, ethnicity, racial groups, and how these differences impacts their health,…